Dental Patient Safety in the Military Health System: Joining Medicine in the Journey to High Reliability.

CONCLUSION: Safety initiatives in the dental profession remain immature in comparison to the medical field and the use of an HRO framework is just beginning to emerge in dentistry. The MHS benefits from a robust dental patient safety reporting system when compared to civilian practice in the United States. Review of these data demonstrates that a high priority focus should be the elimination of WSS. Initiatives based on high reliability strategies to address this issue will be discussed. A commitment to reporting and analyzing its performance and adopting the principles and behaviors of HROs will accelerate the MHS goal of providing ever increasing safety and quality in the dental care it provides. PMID: 31247091 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Military Medicine - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Mil Med Source Type: research